bugsmith

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[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I enjoyed reading this so much. I am ashamed that I am British and a big fan of video games, but never knew that Rare was a British company. I'd never even heard of Ultimate, but I'll put that down to age.

Rare made some of my absolute childhood favourites. It's a shame they fell from glory, but it's good to remember that a company is only as good as it's people - and people move on - much like the previously adored Blizzard.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't think your /s is necessary. Especially on a UK community where sarcasm is expected by default :)

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

My understanding is that it was responded to, but not debated.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

170 cm is not big for a man though. At least not where I'm from. Are you from a country with a low average height or was that a typo?

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah maybe. But even that is hardly exceptional battery life. And then the watch will be less than 50% by the time you've slept with it.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

...Samsung watch 4, and it was a whole different story. Snappy. Great UI. Great battery life.

Do we have a different Samsung watch 4? Or a different expectation of great battery?

I got one last year, and it's my first smartwatch. It lasts one day. Having to charge it every night makes it a burden. Of it hadn't been so expensive, and if I didn't want to get the body tracking It offers, I'd simply leave it on a drawer.

My friend has a Garmin of some kind. It's bulky, but o kind of like that. He reckons his lasts nearly a week. That would be my idea of great battery.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This one is not likely to be popular here, but I have to be totally honest and say: Miley Cyrus.

Don't get me wrong. I am not really a fan of her or her music (nor am I a hater). But my god does that woman have an incredible voice and a mastery of how to use it.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

To those who have been recommending Florisboard in this thread: Thank you. I've longed for a good FOSS keyboard, but always found they lacked enough features that I was willing to compromise and stick with gboard. Florisboard, using the latest beta from IzzyOnDroid, absolutely hits the mark already. It's missing a few features, like word autosuggest, but I can live without that for a while.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Good bot. But in this case, the linking is appropriate.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I'd rather not dox myself. They're not a huge company. I promise you that this is not something uncommon.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Sorry, I thought the rest was implied. Because the company also sold user data (and stated that in the T&C's). The industry is very aware of email aliases and so it is more valuable to have sanitized data.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I used to work for a product comparison company (think finance and insurance). We used to save the email address as typed for login and also with everything after the plus removed separately. For Gmail and certain other large providers, we also stripped out any dots e.g. a.j.uniquename@gmail.com became ajuniquename@gmail.com.

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